March 2019 Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum Calendar

<< March 2019 >>

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
24 Steve Jobs is born (1955) Also try: entrepreneur US House of Representatives vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson (1868) Also try: impeachment, checks and balances	25 Anthony Burgess born (1917) Also try: A Clockwork Orange, dystopia	26 Victor Hugo born (1802) Also try: Les Miserables Grand Teton National Park established (1929) Also try: National Park Service, Calvin Coolidge	27 John Steinbeck born (1902) Also try: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born (1807) Also try: lyric poetry	28 Digital Learning Day Also try: education technology DNA structure discovered (1953) Also try: double helix, genetics	1 Women's History Month begins Also try: women's rights, gender equality Yellowstone becomes world's first national park (1872) Also try: national parks Salem Witch Trials begin (1692) Also try: the Crucible Frederic Chopin born (1810) Also try: Romantic era	2 Read Across America Day Also try: literature, reading skills Dr. Seuss born (1904) Also try: Seuss political cartoons, Green Eggs and Ham Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico (1836) Also try: The Alamo
3 Alexander Graham Bell born (1847) Also try: telephone, inventor "The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes national anthem (1931) Also try: national anthem	4 National Grammar Day Also try: syntax, punctuation, linguistics Antonio Lucio Vivaldi born (1678) Also try: Baroque period	5 Mardi Gras Also try: carnival masks The Boston Massacre (1770) Also try: American Revolution Stapler patented in England by C.H. Gould (1868) Also try: inventions	6 Michelangelo born (1475) Also try: Renaissance art, sculpture Decision reached in the Dred Scott case (1857) Also try: Missouri Compromise, slavery Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of elements (1869) Also try: Dmitri Mendeleev, periodic trends	7 National Cereal Day Also try: grains, nutrition, breakfast Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone (1876) Also try: Alexander Graham Bell, inventions	8 National Proofreading Day Also try: writing process, peer editing The New York Stock Exchange founded (1817) Also try: stock market, financial investments	9 The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith published (1776) Also try: Adam Smith, free market economy Ulysses S. Grant appointed commander of the Union Army (1864) Also try: American Civil War
10 Daylight Saving Time begins Also try: time zones, seasons Harriet Tubman Day Also try: underground railroad, abolitionists US Senate votes to lower voting age to 18 (1971) Also try: voting rights, democracy	11 A 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, resulting in the second largest nuclear accident in history (2011) Also try: Fukushima, tsunamis, nuclear disasters	12 Jack Kerouac born (1922) Also try: Beat generation Truman Doctrine enacted (1947) Also try: Cold War, Harry Truman Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia (1918) Also try: Moscow	13 National Good Samaritan Day Also try: kindness, compassion Sir William Herschel discovers Uranus (1781) Also try: Uranus, solar system	14 Albert Einstein born (1879) Also try: theory of relativity, photoelectric effect Math Pi Day Also try: circles, circumference, diameter	15 Julius Caesar assassinated (44 BC) Also try: Roman Empire, Ides of March Andrew Jackson born (1767) Also try: US presidents	16 The Scarlet Letter published (1850) Also try: Puritans, Nathaniel Hawthorne James Madison born (1751) Also try: US presidents
17 Saint Patrick's Day Also try: Irish heritage, Ireland The Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India (1959) Also try: Tibet, Buddhism	18 Stamp Act repealed by British Parliament (1766) Also try: American Revolution, Declaratory Act Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to conduct a space walk (1965) Also try: Space Race, space exploration	19 Chief Justice Earl Warren born (1891) Also try: supreme court, Brown v. Board of Education National Agriculture Day Also try: farming, gardening	20 Spring Equinox Also try: four seasons Iraq War begins (2003) Also try: War on Terror Lois Lowry born (1937) Also try: The Giver Uncle Tom's Cabin published (1852) Also try: abolitionists, Harriet Beecher Stowe	21 World Poetry Day Also try: writing poetry, types of poems World Down Syndrome Day Also try: disabilities, genetic disorders Johann Sebastian Bach born (1685) Also try: Baroque period, classical composers	22 World Water Day Also try: freshwater, water cycle, lakes, rivers Robert Millikan born (1868) Also try: physicists, oil-drop experiment	23 World Meteorological Day Also try: weather patterns, meteorology Second Reconstruction Act passed (1867) Also try: American Civil War
24 Exxon Valdez causes worst oil spill in US history (1989) Also try: oil spill, water pollution Bhutan officially becomes a democracy (2008) Also try: democracy	25 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope (708) Also try: Catholicism, popes	26 Robert Frost born (1874) Also try: narrative poetry Tennessee Williams born (1911) Also try: A Streetcar Named Desire	27 World Theatre Day Also try: drama, performing arts Alaska hit by an 8.4 magnitude earthquake (1964) Also try: Richter scale, plate tectonics	28 Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs (1979) Also try: radiation, nuclear energy Viking raiders sack Paris, led by Ragnar Lodbrok (845) Also try: Paris, French history	29 Last US troops leave Vietnam (1973) Also try: Vietnam War First batch of Coca-Cola produced (1886) Also try: soda	30 National Doctors' Day Also try: medical careers Vincent van Gogh born (1853) Also try: famous artists, still life The Queensboro Bridge opens (1909) Also try: bridges, civil engineering
31 Cesar Chavez born (1927) Also try: workers' rights First US map published (1784) Also try: cartography Eiffel Tower opens (1889) Also try: Paris, France	1 National Poetry Month begins Also try: types of poetry April Fool's Day Also try: jokes, pranks Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered (1748) Also try: Mount Vesuvius, volcanoes	2 World Autism Awareness Day Also try: asperger syndrome, learning disabilities Hans Christian Anderson born (1805) Also try: fairy tales, morals	3 National Find a Rainbow Day Also try: Roy G. Biv, visible light Jane Goodall born (1934) Also try: chimpanzees First iPad sold in the US (2010) Also try: future of technology, mobile devices	4 Maya Angelou born (1928) Also try: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, poetry NATO ratified (1949) Also try: Atlantic Alliance	5 Booker T. Washington born (1856) Also try: Atlanta Compromise Easter Island discovered (1722) Also try: Polynesia	6 US enters World War I (1917) Also try: Allied Powers Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole (1909) Also try: North Pole, arctic exploration

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